The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-23

went cOaStlng. Inc annual regatta was
postponed. A trotting race on the lake was
won by j. w. Hayes Fanny H." The
carnival ball at the American Hotel in the
evening was attended by nearly one hun
dred couples.
In General.
BEEcHER will write an autobiography.
Ice is breaking up in the Hudson river.
THERE are 81 active volcanoes in Japan.
THE village of Cummings, Ill.,, is suffering
from flood.
BLACK, OPPENHEIMER x Co., Galveston,
Texas, have failed for $75000O
The President has nominated Captain
Greedy to be chief signal officer
THE freshet in South Chicago has caused a
great deal of annoyance and loss
SIGNoR FREDERICK LABLANCHE, the tenor,
is dead at the age of seventy-two
DISASTROUS floods in the Missouri valley
are anticipated when a thaw comes.
THE Logan fund, including $4,000 raised
in Chicago, now amounts to S64 900.
Snow FLAKES as large as milk-pans are
reported from Fort Benton, Montana.
THE celebration of Queen victoria's jubi-
lee was begun in her empire Wednesday.
Two freight trains collided at Collins, Pa,
wrecking two locomotives and twenty-one
cars
MANY thousand head of cattle have per-
shed in the recent severe weather in Mon
tana.
JOHN STEvER, aged seventy, jumped from
the Niagara suspension bridge and was
! killed.
WARDEN JOHN HOWARD of the southern
Indiana pententiary is 100000 short in his
accounts
COLONEL JOHN JAMESON, general super
intendent of the railway mail service, has
resigned
| ~ bo haan
PEELED from Turkey for attacking Islamism
in pamphlets.
THE Emperor of China has decreed that
| henceforth there shall be no religious intol-
erance in his realm.
CALEB COLE of Northumberland N. H.,
was run over by a sled loaded with timber
and instantly killed.
INJURY to winter wheat by reason of sleet
storms is reported from Illinois, Indiana,
Missouri and Kansas.
THE German elections were held Monday.
The result is close, though the indications
favor the government
PATHS appearance at Denver, Col, at
tracted an audience of 1000 persons. The
receipts were over S11 600.
The Merchants National Bank of Dead
wood, Dakota, and its branches have closed,
with liabilities of $4,000
TmRTY-sEvEN persons were killed by an
explosion Ill Jllt tdltH COlllcly III lNuSitthu'
Only six men were rescued.
The republican dinner in New York in
observance of the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln was an interesting occasion.
HENRY II. HATHoRN, ex-member of con-
gress AMI owner of the Hathorn Spring at
Saratoga, is dead, aged seventy-hve.
IT is believed that many lives will be lost
in Montana this winter on account of the
cold weather and heavy fall of snow.
PACIFIC slope papers are at hand giving a
full account of the recent snowfall there,
the fifth in San Francisco for forty years.
THE editor of the New York RdillCdy
Gdzette, G. Dunning, was robbed on a
Florida train of 81 800 and a California ticket.
THE Ohio legislature has passed bill re-
pealing the black laws and statutes provid-
ing for separate schools for colored children.
THE admiral Foote" Grand Army Post
of New Haven, CT, refused to condemn the
Presidents veto of the dependent pension
bill
PROFESSOR E. E. BARNARD of Vanderbilt
University. Nashville, Tenn, has discovered
new comet, the thirteenth to be credited
to him.
j. G. PENDERGRAsT's residence near Rose
vile, Ark, was destroyed by fire. His five
sons, who slept upstairs, persisted in the
flames.
Ex-Governor HAUsER of Montana says
that about twenty-five per cent of the cattle
in that territory have persisted during the
winter.
FATHER McGLYNN's adherents have issued
an address to the worIing-men, in which
they protest against Catholic dictation in
politics.
ROBERT BONNER has been off cred S100,0Ot
for Maud S." by Joseph Harker, who
| bought her at four years of age for w. III
Vanderbilt.
: THE Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail
t road has fitted two traius with heating
apparatus supplied with steam from the
3 locomotive.
THE safe in the sheriff's and clerks offic,
l of Logan county, Ark, was robbed of $50,
600, large portion belonging to the public
t school fund.
, RIoToUs strikers at East Cambridge
D Mass, damaged several horse-cars, but wer,
dispersed by the police, and dozen of thu
!. leaders arrested.
t BROOKLYN TABERNACLE was crowded a
a the marriage of Miss Edith Talmage
daughter of the pastor, to Allan E. Donnor
| | of Richmond, Va.
A FIRE at the American cotton docks al
| Tomknvile, S. l., Friday night, which
was caused by lightning, destroyed $500, 00C
= worth of property.
Two little boys in New London, CT
. Walter Spencer, aged six, and Leonard
> Ieper, seven years Olu-WeTo drowned
d. while playing on the ice.
THE prudential committee of the Ameri
. can Board has refused to appoint a Yal
y man missionary because of his attitude OF
- the question of probation.
p THE report that Levi (better known a
v Doc y Wilson has withdrawn his motion
= for new trial in the Wilson-Moen cas-,
receives official confirmation,
v A TORNADO swept over Indiana and Obi
+. recently, doing much damage to houses a
n Shelbyville, Springfield, Canton, Wooster
+ Newark, Akron and other towns
|, JUDGE THOMAS NJ. JOSEPH, for severa
J. years treasurer of the grand lodge of Texa
y Odd Fellows, is short in his accounts 1913
18j, This embraces the entire fund.
It HEAVY electrical storm, accompanied
e by violent rain, passed over Philadelphia
IS Friday evening, doing considerable damag
a to both public and private property.
l: DIR. HUME, in public letter, states tina
d in his public utterances last summer he di
Il not commit himself to any theory concernin
p Gods ways of grace toward the heather.
Il THE night express on the White Mounta
AZ division of the Boston Il Lowell railroa
n struck and instantly killed Charles III, Hi
n of Hill, n. H., who was driving home fror
/ Concord.
a ADvICEs from the Tonga Islands say tina
IS six natives have been sentenced to death fC
assaultng Missionary Baker, and that tn
matt ian ana